<?php 

$ch = curl_init(); 
$timeout = 5; 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://192.168.1.123'); 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1); 
curl_setopt ($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, $timeout); 
$file_contents = curl_exec($ch); 
curl_close($ch); 
echo $file_contents; 

?>